Find inspiration, how-tos, instructions, tips, and thoughts about graphic design and design programs, especially Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign, and Adobe Premiere.
Ever stretched a pattern in Illustrator and wondered why it looks distorted—or why it won’t move with your shape? Learn how to precisely align, scale, and reposition pattern fills using the Transform Patterns option and the tilde (~) key shortcut. Perfect for designers who want more control and cleaner results.
Learn how to change units in Photoshop, including pixels, inches, and millimeters. This beginner-friendly guide shows you where to update your measurement settings, how to fix mismatched units in the toolbar, and reveals a hidden Control-click (Mac) or right-click (PC) trick every designer should know.
Learn how to use Photoshop artboards like Illustrator to design and manage multi-format campaigns in one organized, print-ready file.
When you scale your Artboard or object in Adobe Illustrator, don't forget that you can scale by different reference points, nine to be exact! Here's how.
What's the best settings to use when aligning your text to the left in InDesign? Well that depends on your goals. Here are a few options. Watch or read below.
Here are 6 ways to do it. As frequent users of Adobe products know first-hand, each Adobe program has similarities AND lots of differences AND there's many ways to accomplish each task. The copying of styles (fx) is one such difference.
Quick fix for missing tools in Photoshop: switch your workspace or search for the hidden tool — no reinstall needed!
Learn three techniques to easily colorize an image in Adobe Photoshop.
If you're viewing a gridded "vortex" of green, blue and orange that overlays your Illustrator design, then you likely have your Show Perspective Grid active. Here's how to hide it.
When you're new to PhotoShop, sometimes simple tasks can be frustrating and difficult to find. One such task is saving your project as a JPEG. Here's how.